More Discipline

Or maybe just obsessiveness, you be the judge.

My original deposit of $50 on Pokerstars is now over $200. Fifty of that is cleared bonus, so on my own efforts I have so far tripled my money. My current ROI, taking into account rake, is about 15%. It's taken me about 700 games to accomplish this, as it's been done almost entirely at $1+.20 10 person sit'n'goes.

I have battled through to this level despite 40- or 50-game downswings that made me want to scream with frustration. I have the resisted the temptation to take a stab at higher stakes in hopes of building my bankroll more quickly. I am now 4-tabling so as to keep myself from getting overly cranky over any one particular bad beat or loss.

My current goal is to get to $250 playing in these $1 games. At that point, I will move up in stakes to the $5 tables. Fifty buy-ins should be enough to make that reasonable, assuming (which I do), that I ought to be able to beat those games at about the same rate as the cheaper ones.

[No phone call. Agggh.]